My Civic Duty

It was bound to happen. I got summons for jury duty in the mail yesterday. Surprisingly, I am not particularly bummed out by this summons. I've always sort of wanted to get jury duty. I think it will fascinating to see the legal system live in action. I'm not planning on *trying* to get out of being selected for a trial; I just don't want to get selected for an O.J. Simpson-esque trial where I have to stay locked up in some hotel for weeks on end.

The only bummer to my jury duty is that it is in downtown Phoenix--boo. Chad had jury duty about 8 months ago and he got to go to the little courthouse in Mesa. Not me. I have to drive all the way to downtown Phoenix; which will take well over an hour in traffic even though it's only 20 miles from my house.

I hate downtown Phoenix. Downtown Phoenix is the only part of the valley that resembles the huge city that is the Phoenix Metro area actually is. The rest of the valley is just like Albuquerque, it just stretches on for 90 miles. Downtown Phoenix is different; full of tall skyscrapers, parking garages, one-way streets (yuck) and bustling intersections. I always get lost when I am downtown and I hate paying to park my car in some garage that seems like rape is waiting for me at every corner.

Originally I was assigned jury duty on March 24th. I had to postpone this date because on March 24th I will still be in Albuquerque because of my baby shower! So now I am going to be serving my jury duty on April 1st. April 1st is 6 weeks away. I can't imagine how pregnant-ly big I will be by then. Maybe I'll have Cayden in the courtroom...LOL. We don't want to meet him *that* early.

So yes, as dorky as it may seem I am pretty excited to be part of the American Justice system.